The Council of Community Services,
in partnership with the City of Roanoke,
the Roanoke Regional Task Force on Homelessness,
and the homeless shelter and service providers, has developed the Blue Ridge CAN (HMIS).

The Blue Ridge CAN has been developed to better serve homeless individuals and families as well as to provide opportunities for the homeless service providers to coordinate services and share information that can help them help people and families who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness.

Before enrolling a new client, its always best to do a thorough search.This tutorial covers the proper search protocol for effectively finding clients in the BRCAN-HMIS. Properly searching for clients helps reduce duplicate client records from being entered into the database.HMIS User Tutorials – Searching For Clients____________________________________________